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		<title>Chinavision Robot budget Android phone gets reviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Looking for Android on a budget?  Lured in by the subsidized prices for today&#8217;s Android smartphones, but reluctant to sign up to a new, two-year agreement?   Chinavision&#8217;s Robot promises the scratch that itch for you: at $179.10 it&#8217;s about the same cost as a regular Android phone, but you&#8217;re getting it SIM-free. Over at The Red Ferret Journal they&#8217;ve reviewed the Robot, and as you might expect there are some compromises to hit that price-tag.  For a start there&#8217;s no 3G &#8211; it&#8217;s GSM/EDGE only &#8211; and the OS is Android 1.5; the 2.8-inch touchscreen is resistive and runs at 320 x 240 resolution.  Meanwhile the CPU is just 400MHz and the camera only 2-megapixels.  The end result is a phone that isn&#8217;t exactly swift, but otherwise the review seems surprisingly positive. In fact, the Robot feels well put together (even if the style is borrowed a little from the BlackBerry Storm) and the lack of 3G means you get around three days use out of a full charge.  Considering something like the HTC Tattoo still runs to £179.99 ($270), the Chinavision Robot might not be such a bad deal. ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/chinavision-robot-budget-android-phone-gets-reviewed/</link>
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		<title>Chinavision Robot budget Android phone gets reviewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Looking for Android on a budget?  Lured in by the subsidized prices for today&#8217;s Android smartphones, but reluctant to sign up to a new, two-year agreement?   Chinavision&#8217;s Robot promises the scratch that itch for you: at $179.10 it&#8217;s about the same cost as a regular Android phone, but you&#8217;re getting it SIM-free. Over at The Red Ferret Journal they&#8217;ve reviewed the Robot, and as you might expect there are some compromises to hit that price-tag.  For a start there&#8217;s no 3G &#8211; it&#8217;s GSM/EDGE only &#8211; and the OS is Android 1.5; the 2.8-inch touchscreen is resistive and runs at 320 x 240 resolution.  Meanwhile the CPU is just 400MHz and the camera only 2-megapixels.  The end result is a phone that isn&#8217;t exactly swift, but otherwise the review seems surprisingly positive. In fact, the Robot feels well put together (even if the style is borrowed a little from the BlackBerry Storm) and the lack of 3G means you get around three days use out of a full charge.  Considering something like the HTC Tattoo still runs to £179.99 ($270), the Chinavision Robot might not be such a bad deal. ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/chinavision-robot-budget-android-phone-gets-reviewed/</link>
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		<title>HTC Incredible shows up on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HTC incredible, a still yet to be officially announced handset that has received way more pre-launch coverage that it should have. Don&#8217;t get me wrong its a nice looking handset, but there have been rumors about a release date, plenty of leaked images and now a video. Unfortunately the video is far from the ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/htc-incredible-shows-up-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>HTC Incredible shows up on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The HTC incredible, a still yet to be officially announced handset that has received way more pre-launch coverage that it should have. Don&#8217;t get me wrong its a nice looking handset, but there have been rumors about a release date, plenty of leaked images and now a video. Unfortunately the video is far from the ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/htc-incredible-shows-up-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>More rumors: Sprint Hero and Moment update coming next Monday March 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a little more news that sounds almost better than it should, a new rumored release date for the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment 2.1 update has popped up and its close, next Monday March 26. This date is a little better sounding as compared to last week when according to a leaked internal memo ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/more-rumors-sprint-hero-and-moment-update-coming-next-monday-march-26/</link>
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		<title>More rumors: Sprint Hero and Moment update coming next Monday March 26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a little more news that sounds almost better than it should, a new rumored release date for the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment 2.1 update has popped up and its close, next Monday March 26. This date is a little better sounding as compared to last week when according to a leaked internal memo ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/more-rumors-sprint-hero-and-moment-update-coming-next-monday-march-26/</link>
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		<title>HTC Incredible – First Look (Video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The HTC Incredible has not yet been announced officially by Verizon, it’s expected to make its debut at this year’s CTIA along with a slew of other Android based devices. Verizon Wireless fans are impatiently waiting for this to hit the shelves and that may happen within the coming weeks. In the video the phone seems very responsive and quick. It still has that ugly back that I hope Verizon ditches in the production model. The specs are almost identical to those found in the Nexus One but this has an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus, an optical trackball the 1GHZ Snapdragon is underclocked to 768. Click here to view the embedded video. ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/htc-incredible-%e2%80%93-first-look-video/</link>
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		<title>Gesture Search: An Open Letter To Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By now many of you have discovered that Gesture Search is available to all Android 1.6+ devices from the Market. Now question is... is it useful? Most people I have spoken to have given me something along the lines of, "Sort of, but it's not as accessible as I'd like". So while this is a Google Labs product, meaning it's in the famous "BETA" stage, I have something for Google to take into consideration. The issue here is that the gesture search is just not quick enough to access. While many have told me to put it on my homescreen, it's still not any more useful than using the universal Google Search widget. So now all of the enlightened people are thinking well maybe Google should build it into apps like the contact list, GMail, or even in a homescreen widget. That might be all fine and dandy but let's go back to what Android is all about. Android is all about collaboration and improvement as can be seen from the Open Handset Alliance's initiatives. So why not make Google Gesture Search a developer tool? Gestures have long since been available to developers since Android 1.6, but think of all the uses developers could get out of universal search within their applications? Today, Android developers have an abundance of tools at their fingertips to improve all aspects of applications. AdMob to improve profitability, JTwitter to make twitter clients, Google Maps integration, and even GUI design via DroidDraw. All of these tools distributed for free so that developer's can take them and make applications that are better than those on any other mobile platform. I imagine being in a twitter client and searching my followers by drawing their name so that I can send them a direct message. How about being  in the Android Guys App and searching articles with gesture search? So why not make gesture search open and let developers run with it. Let us integrate it into applications, widgets, and more. Give the people what they want! Sincerely, The Android Community Might We Suggest... New Mobile Search Features from Google Google rolled out a couple of handy new features on its mobile-optimized site late yesterday, making it easier to access search results on your phone that you generated previously on your desktop or l... ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/gesture-search-an-open-letter-to-google/</link>
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		<title>T-Mobile launches HTC Desire competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ T-Mobile UK has a new promotion to commemorate the launch of the HTC Desire on the UK network on March 26, they are giving away one HTC Desire to any T-Mobile user who enters its online draw. To enter, sign up on T-Mobile UK forums and email some information given there and you could be the lucky winner. Entries have to be in by 9.00am Monday morning. Winners have to make a short video reviewing the handset and send it into T-Mobile, that’s the only catch to this contest. I don’t know how they plan on enforcing this rule unless there’s some built in kill switch which I doubt. [via eurodroid , T-Mobile UK ] ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/t-mobile-launches-htc-desire-competition/</link>
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		<title>XPERIA X10 Mini UI Ported the HTC Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Well, there isn&#8217;t much to say about this yet due to the fact that nothing works. The ROM hasn&#8217;t been uploaded either but the dev from XDA by the name of AngioNicholai has ported the Rachael UI to the Magic. It works pretty well in the video and AngioNicholai claims it is fast and stable or as stable as a ROM can be with nothing working. We&#8217;ll keep an eye on the progress of this but to me it just looks like a theme. None of the aspects of Rachael was demonstrated in the video other than the look. Click here to view the embedded video. [via frandroid ] ]]></description>
		<link>http://androidelectronics.com/2010/03/xperia-x10-mini-ui-ported-the-htc-magic/</link>
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